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Sahih Muslim 971a

Prohibition against sitting and praying on graves

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وَحَدَّثَنِي زُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍ حَدَّثَنَا جَرِيرٌ عَنْ سُهَيْلٍ عَنْ أَبِيهِ عَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ قَالَ قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ ﷺ:

«لَأَنْ يَجْلِسَ أَحَدُكُمْ عَلَى جَمْرَةٍ، فَتُحْرِقَ ثِيَابَهُ، فَتَخْلُصَ إِلَى جِلْدِهِ، خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ أَنْ يَجْلِسَ عَلَى قَبْرٍ»

Translation

Chain of narrators
  1. Zuhayr b. Ḥarb
  2. Jarīr
  3. Suhayl
  4. his father
  5. Abū Hurayrah
  6. Rasūl Allāh ﷺ

The Messenger of Allah ﷺ said: "It is better for one of you to sit on a live coal that burns his clothes and reaches his skin than to sit on a grave."

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Same hadith, other wordings

  • Sunan Ibnu Majah 1566لأَنْ يَجْلِسَ أَحَدُكُمْ عَلَى جَمْرَةٍ تُحْرِقُهُ خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ أَنْ يَجْلِسَ عَلَى قَبْرٍ
  • Misykatul Mashabih 1699وَعَنْ أَبِي هُرَيْرَةَ رَضِيَ اللَّهُ عَنْهُ قَالَ: قَالَ رَسُولُ اللَّهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ: «لَأَنْ يَجْلِسَ أَحَدُكُمْ عَلَى جَمْرَةٍ فَتُحْرِقَ ثِيَابَهُ فَتَخْلُصَ إِلَى جِلْدِهِ خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ أَنْ يجلس على قبر». رَو
  • Sunan an-Nasa'i 2044لأَنْ يَجْلِسَ أَحَدُكُمْ عَلَى جَمْرَةٍ حَتَّى تَحْرِقَ ثِيَابَهُ خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ أَنْ يَجْلِسَ عَلَى قَبْرٍ
  • Sunan Abu Dawud 3228لأَنْ يَجْلِسَ أَحَدُكُمْ عَلَى جَمْرَةٍ فَتَحْرِقَ ثِيَابَهُ حَتَّى تَخْلُصَ إِلَى جِلْدِهِ خَيْرٌ لَهُ مِنْ أَنْ يَجْلِسَ عَلَى قَبْرٍ

Other narrations of this report

Sahih Muslim 972bJami' at-Tirmidhi 1050Jami' at-Tirmidhi 1051Musnad Ahmad 8108Musnad Ahmad 9732

Narrators

  1. Abū Hurayrah al-Dawsī
    The illustrious Companion, the memorizer among the Companions (ḥāfiẓ al-ṣaḥābah)d. 57 AH, or: 58 AH, or: 59 AH
    أَبُو هُرَيْرَةَ الدَّوْسِيُّالصحابي الجليل ، حافظ الصحابة
    عن
  2. Dhakwān al-Sammān
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 101 AH
    أَبِيهِثقة ثبت
    عن
  3. Suhayl b. Abī Ṣāliḥ
    truthful (ṣadūq); his memory deteriorated at the end of his lifed. 138 AH, or: 140 AH, or: 141 AH, in Tārīkh Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim: 128 AH
    سُهَيْلٍصدوق , تغير حفظه بآخره
    عن
  4. Jarīr
    Trustworthy (thiqah), his book is sound (ṣaḥīḥ al-kitāb); it was said that at the end of his life he would err when narrating from memoryd. 187 AH or 188 AH
    جَرِيرٌثقة صحيح الكتاب ، قيل : كان في آخر عمره يهم من حفظه
    حدثنا
  5. Abū Khaythamah
    trustworthy, precise (thiqah thabt)d. 234 AH, also said: 232 AH
    زُهَيْرُ بْنُ حَرْبٍثقة ثبت
    حدثني
  6. Muslim
    Trustworthy (thiqah), a retentive memorizer (ḥāfiẓ), an imam, an author of compilations, knowledgeable in jurisprudence (fiqh)d. Muḥammad b. Yaʿqūb said: 261 AH, Makkī b. ʿAbdān said: 259 AH
    مُسْلِمٌثقة حافظ ، إمام ، مصنف ، عالم بالفقه

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Commentaries

Mirqāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mullā ʿAlī Qārī)
Mirʿāt al-Mafātīḥ (al-Mubārakfūrī)
Lamaʿāt al-Tanqīḥ (ʿAbd al-Ḥaqq al-Dihlawī)
al-Minhāj (Nawawī)
al-Mufham (Abū al-ʿAbbās)

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riyad 1766Mishkat al-Masabih 1699

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